Once, when I was teaching, I told the story of a friend of mine from college. Big biker guy. He had
H I P P O C R A C Y
tattooed in 3 inch letters down the length of his arm. I wrote it on the board like that and told them that no one had the heart to tell him it was misspelled.
And then I started to spell it correctly, and realized that it was one of those words I can never spell properly.
Once, when I was teaching, I told the story of a friend of mine from college. Big biker guy. He had
H I P P O C R A C Y
tattooed in 3 inch letters down the length of his arm. I wrote it on the board like that and told them that no one had the heart to tell him it was misslepped.
And then I started to spell it correctly, and realized that it was one of those words I can never spell properly.
Hypocrysy
Grr!
Hipocrisy
Grr!
Hypocrisy
Uh, maybe he believed in being governed by hippos. Hippocracy.
no..... it's a medical term where the bowel telescopes into itself sort of like when you pull off your socks. it's seen mostly in infants and causes obstruction and bloody diarrhea . you try to treat it first with a barium enema, to see if you can unfold it, if not it's off to surgery. i've always had trouble with that but i can't spell worth beans, can't balance my checkbook so i just transcribe everything and use online banking with quicken. i'm dependent on technology. but then how much energy do you spend trying to overcome these things, hey i could never figure out how to program my vcr let alone it's clock, but that's why there is tivo and dvr.
no..... it's a medical term where the bowel telescopes into itself sort of like when you pull off your socks. it's seen mostly in infants and causes obstruction and bloody diarrhea . you try to treat it first with a barium enema, to see if you can unfold it, if not it's off to surgery.
no..... it's a medical term where the bowel telescopes into itself sort of like when you pull off your socks. it's seen mostly in infants and causes obstruction and bloody diarrhea . you try to treat it first with a barium enema, to see if you can unfold it, if not it's off to surgery. i've always had trouble with that but i can't spell worth beans, can't balance my checkbook so i just transcribe everything and use online banking with quicken. i'm dependent on technology. but then how much energy do you spend trying to overcome these things, hey i could never figure out how to program my vcr let alone it's clock, but that's why there is tivo and dvr.
Well.
I think that counts as one of the more horrifying explications of a misspelling I've come across.
this is only while typing, but anything ending in "-ing" takes special effort for me not to transpose the "n" and "g" (like "anythign"). i have no idea why this happens.
these are usually under 4months old and the parents are freaking out
intussesception
had one last night at 11pm did the enema and cleared it. this child had the same thing 3 weeks ago, off to a peds surgical specialist. first time in my career for a repeat.
Also for some weird reason I always forget the u in favourite and colour.
Umm, going by the "Rockie Mountains," you are on the wrong side of the Atlantic to put the u in "favorite" and "color."
What gets me is the change from "judgement," as an acceptable spelling in Webster's tenth edition, to the eleventh edition which only lists "judgment."
What I HATE is when I look up a word and the dictionary says: "Both accepted."
Examples: benefitted/benefited; ambience/ambiance
Why can't they take a stand? Why are they so lily-livered that just because SO many people spell something incorrectly, the incorrect spelling suddenly becomes acceptable. Grrrr.
I find this dilemma highly annoying. Why? Well, for example, I wrote a fairly scathing letter to my boss a few years ago that included the word "benefitted". I had looked it up, the dictionary waffled, refused to make an effing commitment, said both benefitted and benefited were acceptable. I chose the double "t" version, and discovered later that my boss spelled it 'benefited', so he undoubtedly thought I had spelled the word incorrectly. *sigh*
There are actually quite a few of these words, though I can only think of the above two at the moment.
I always used to have trouble with the "r" problem in words like offered, referred, suffered, etc. I *shouldn't* have had the problem, but I never trusted myself with them. I must have looked up the word "offered" 250 times over the course of time. Even now, I feel a certain discomfort as I look at it, though I am *sure* I've spelled it correctly. eek.
Let's see - allegedly; illegible; eligible; obsess; illegal;
accommodate; and a ton of others. \
Spelling bee word I missed in grade school = quack.
thing is, i think i would spell all of these perfectly if you asked me to spell them out loud, but typing them is where i screw up. i wonder if that's because of qwerty layouts or something else?
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H I P P O C R A C Y
tattooed in 3 inch letters down the length of his arm. I wrote it on the board like that and told them that no one had the heart to tell him it was misspelled.
And then I started to spell it correctly, and realized that it was one of those words I can never spell properly.
Hypocrysy
Grr!
Hipocrisy
Grr!
Hypocrisy
Originally posted by midwinter
Once, when I was teaching, I told the story of a friend of mine from college. Big biker guy. He had
H I P P O C R A C Y
tattooed in 3 inch letters down the length of his arm. I wrote it on the board like that and told them that no one had the heart to tell him it was misslepped.
And then I started to spell it correctly, and realized that it was one of those words I can never spell properly.
Hypocrysy
Grr!
Hipocrisy
Grr!
Hypocrisy
Uh, maybe he believed in being governed by hippos. Hippocracy.
intucesseption hmmmmm nooo
intussesception yea that's it
i'm glad my transcriptionist knows how and i have spell check
i also have that "i before e except after c stuff"
Originally posted by NOFEER
intusception hmmmmm noooo
intucesseption hmmmmm nooo
intussesception yea that's it
i'm glad my transcriptionist knows how and i have spell check
i also have that "i before e except after c stuff"
Um? Interception?
Originally posted by midwinter
Um? Interception?
no..... it's a medical term where the bowel telescopes into itself sort of like when you pull off your socks. it's seen mostly in infants and causes obstruction and bloody diarrhea . you try to treat it first with a barium enema, to see if you can unfold it, if not it's off to surgery. i've always had trouble with that but i can't spell worth beans, can't balance my checkbook so i just transcribe everything and use online banking with quicken. i'm dependent on technology. but then how much energy do you spend trying to overcome these things, hey i could never figure out how to program my vcr let alone it's clock, but that's why there is tivo and dvr.
Originally posted by NOFEER
no..... it's a medical term where the bowel telescopes into itself sort of like when you pull off your socks. it's seen mostly in infants and causes obstruction and bloody diarrhea . you try to treat it first with a barium enema, to see if you can unfold it, if not it's off to surgery.
You just made all that up.
what words do you spell correctly, that microsoft words does not.
I will start...
quinones.
i am not talking about quinine you piece of shit hopping mac classic....
Originally posted by NOFEER
no..... it's a medical term where the bowel telescopes into itself sort of like when you pull off your socks. it's seen mostly in infants and causes obstruction and bloody diarrhea . you try to treat it first with a barium enema, to see if you can unfold it, if not it's off to surgery. i've always had trouble with that but i can't spell worth beans, can't balance my checkbook so i just transcribe everything and use online banking with quicken. i'm dependent on technology. but then how much energy do you spend trying to overcome these things, hey i could never figure out how to program my vcr let alone it's clock, but that's why there is tivo and dvr.
Well.
I think that counts as one of the more horrifying explications of a misspelling I've come across.
Originally posted by Outsider
Uh, maybe he believed in being governed by hippos. Hippocracy.
Originally posted by addabox
Well.
I think that counts as one of the more horrifying explications of a misspelling I've come across.
these are usually under 4months old and the parents are freaking out
And parallel.
Originally posted by NOFEER
these are usually under 4months old and the parents are freaking out
intussesception
had one last night at 11pm did the enema and cleared it. this child had the same thing 3 weeks ago, off to a peds surgical specialist. first time in my career for a repeat.
Originally posted by BRussell
Also for some weird reason I always forget the u in favourite and colour.
Umm, going by the "Rockie Mountains," you are on the wrong side of the Atlantic to put the u in "favorite" and "color."
What gets me is the change from "judgement," as an acceptable spelling in Webster's tenth edition, to the eleventh edition which only lists "judgment."
Originally posted by midwinter
That's where ctrl+t can be your friend (place the cursor between the "o" and "r" in "form" and press ctrl+t and POOF! The letters are switched!
OMG this is the best tip ever!
Examples: benefitted/benefited; ambience/ambiance
Why can't they take a stand? Why are they so lily-livered that just because SO many people spell something incorrectly, the incorrect spelling suddenly becomes acceptable. Grrrr.
I find this dilemma highly annoying. Why? Well, for example, I wrote a fairly scathing letter to my boss a few years ago that included the word "benefitted". I had looked it up, the dictionary waffled, refused to make an effing commitment, said both benefitted and benefited were acceptable. I chose the double "t" version, and discovered later that my boss spelled it 'benefited', so he undoubtedly thought I had spelled the word incorrectly. *sigh*
There are actually quite a few of these words, though I can only think of the above two at the moment.
I always used to have trouble with the "r" problem in words like offered, referred, suffered, etc. I *shouldn't* have had the problem, but I never trusted myself with them. I must have looked up the word "offered" 250 times over the course of time. Even now, I feel a certain discomfort as I look at it, though I am *sure* I've spelled it correctly. eek.
Let's see - allegedly; illegible; eligible; obsess; illegal;
accommodate; and a ton of others.
Spelling bee word I missed in grade school = quack.
governement
government
gouvernement
whatever.
I guess that's what you get when a word is spelled more or less the same in different languages, but not exactly.
hmmmm....
luxury
warehouse